“If you want to build a ship, don’t herd people together to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.”
– Jonathan Swift

“Management has a lot to do with answers. Leadership is a function of questions. And the first question for a leader always is: ‘Who do we intend to be?’ Not ‘What are we going to do?’ but ‘Who do we intend to be?’
– Max DePree

“Vision without action is a daydream. Action with without vision is a nightmare.”
– Japanese Proverb

“The master of the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his education and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows which is which; he simply pursues his vision of excellence in whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To him he is always doing both.”
– Buddha

“Rowing harder doesn’t help if the boat is headed in the wrong direction.”
– Kenichi Ohmae

“It’s not what the vision is, it’s what the vision does.”
– Peter Senge

“In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.”
– Warren Buffett

“A leader will find it difficult to articulate a coherent vision unless it expresses his core values, his basic identity. One must first embark on the formidable journey of self-discovery in order to create a vision with authentic soul.”
– Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

“The best vision is insight.”
– Malcolm Forbes

“You have to know what you want. And if it seems to take you off the track, don’t hold back, because perhaps that is instinctively where you want to be. And if you hold back and try to be always where you have been before, you will go dry.”
– Gertrude Stein

“The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.”
– Albert Einstein

“I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That’s were the fun is.”
– Donald Trump

“Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.”
– Arthur Schopenhauer